..The composer Nico Dostal was born as Nicolaus Josef Michaël and
he became later famous as an operetta composer.

But before he entered the world of music he studied law at the University
of Vienna. Finally he deleloped the music and graduated a music study at
the Academy for church music in Klsoterneuburg where he achieved first
attention with his "Grossen Messe" from 1913.

After World War I he worked as a theater bandmaster in different cities
before he came to Berlin in 1924 where he came in touch with the light
music. He first was busy as an arranger for well-known composers like Franz
Lehar and Robert Stolz, finally he wrote first own compositions for movies.